The decision before the sentence# Before a writer commits to a sentence, they have to commit to a position. Most don’t. They write the sentence first and hope the position emerges from it. Not for me. IN THIS ESSAY 01The decision that arrives before the sentence does 02What the decision actually is when you write …
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Somewhere in your company there is a slide that says something like this: customers who enabled the AI assistant retain 15 points better than customers who did not. It has a bar chart. It has been in three executive reviews. It is driving next quarter’s roadmap. Nobody randomized the AI assistant. It shipped to eligible …
I have been a real estate investor for eighteen years. My first home was in Plymouth, Michigan, in 2008. Since then I have moved into multi-family. I started building with AI when ChatGPT shipped in November 2022. The first practice is far older than the second, and it is teaching the second most of what …
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Introduction Spaghetti code is hard to work with because its logic is tangled. A function in Python can handle several related steps and still be perfectly readable. Problems start when different responsibilities become tightly connected, dependencies are unclear, and changing one piece of logic requires tracing through unrelated parts of the code. Breaking code into …
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I keep a folder of sentences I have not implemented yet. I do not call it the almost folder. I do not call it the failure folder. I call it the working folder, because the work is what is in it. I believe in starting before I know what to do. The discipline is to …
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Building on the momentum of 3.7 Flash from three weeks ago and marking our third Flash release in only six weeks, today we’re introducing Gemini 3.8, our best reasoning and coding model yet, at the same speed and low cost of 3.7. Gemini 3.8 introduces 2 variants: Gemini 3.8 Flash: our most intelligent workhorse model, …
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Short answer How do you check whether a policy claim is true? Check a policy claim in three steps. Confirm the citation exists. Then read the passage yourself, because a citation checker only proves the reference is real, not that the sentence is true. Then ask whether anyone has actually read the rule, since nothing …
Fraud stopped being a purely human activity sometime in the last year. Not all of it, obviously; I mean, most fraud is still someone typing on a phone somewhere trying to move money that isn’t theirs. But enough of it has shifted that Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast put a name on it. AI …
Short answer What is the difference between a statute, a rule and guidance? A statute is written by Congress, a rule by an agency after public comment, and guidance is the agency explaining itself. Statutes and rules bind. Guidance usually does not, but under the Medicare Act a policy statement can still set a binding …
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Ask a chatbot “which promotion should we run more of,” and it answers in one breath. It picks a number, states it with confidence, and stops. It picks the promotion with the best-looking number and states its choice confidently. But it may never check how much data that number is based on. A promotion that …
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